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I have no idea what you’re trying to say.

Sadly, given that it's a new (throwaway?) account used to post in a thread about a vaccine, there's a high chance this is another neo-anti-vaxxer, here to tell us why this is "not a vaccine" and all that.

>we don't actually know what he said, but its safe to assume he's one of those labels we assign to bad people with bad thoughts

Nah, he gave hints on what he was getting at. He just wasn't being clear about it.

I am just making a couple of considerations about you, audience, considering I silently read what you comment for years already. This is not a throwaway account. I just felt the need to express my opinion, if you are sad about that, and the only way to answer me is to label me as a "neo-anti-vaxer" you are just demonstrating my point.

But see, you didn't actually make a point in your original comment. I don't mean that rudely. You referred to the "arrogance [we] likely use to discuss the correctness of [our] code." What are actually saying here?

If you want to engage in discussion, I encourage you to use plain language. Accuse the community directly of whatever charge you're bringing, and then we can debate.

Would you deploy in production a software (which lack of safety could be critical) without being sure (or have proof) if it will effectively work as expected in 1+ years?

Would you be relaxed being the administrator of such a software?

All the manners in which the vaccine could have been tested, were employed before deployment. The only thing that wasn't done, as you note, is to wait for XX number of years to see long-term side effects. So in fact, we don't know what the effects of this vaccine will be in 10 years -- because the only way to know that is to wait 10 years. But... there is also no indication, from similar vaccines, that "something terrible" happens in 10 years.

A lot of people out there are just imagining, out of nowhere, than in 10 or 20 years, everyone who got the vaccine is gonna get autism or sprout a third nipple or keel over dead. But they're just imagining this. I can imagine a lot of things too... like, who here can prove to me that the new Doritos flavor introduced last year won't trigger brain cancer in 20 years? Anyone??

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